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Probing Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons with Three-Body Associated Production at Future $e^+e^-$ Colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-02-24 v1

Abstract

We study the discovery prospects for a doubly charged Higgs boson H±±H^{\pm\pm} in the 2-Higgs Doublet Model with type-II seesaw (2HDMcT) at future e+ee^+e^- colliders. Focusing on the three-body channels e+eH±±H1H1e^+e^- \to H^{\pm\pm}H_1^{\mp}H_1^{\mp} and e+eH±±H1We^+e^- \to H^{\pm\pm}H_1^{\mp}W^{\mp}, we scan the model parameter space subject to theoretical consistency as well as current collider, flavor and Electro-Weak Precision Observables (EWPOs). We find that these 232\to3 production modes can exceed the conventional pair-production rate e+eH++He^+e^- \to H^{++}H^{--}, followed by H±±H1±H1±H^{\pm\pm}\to H_1^{\pm}H_1^{\pm} and H1±W±H^{\pm}_1W^{\pm} decays, over wide regions, particularly above the H±±H1±H1±H^{\pm\pm}\to H_1^{\pm}H_1^{\pm} and H±±H1±W±H^{\pm\pm}\to H_1^{\pm}W^{\pm} thresholds, reaching cross-sections up to O(102){\cal O}(10^2)~fb for s=500\sqrt{s}=500--15001500~GeV. A detector-level analysis of the 4+ETmiss4\ell + E_T^{\text{miss}} signature, including dominant multiboson and top quark backgrounds, shows that discovery sensitivity is achievable for s=1000\sqrt{s}=1000-15001500~GeV with integrated luminosities in the few ab1^{-1} range, even in the presence of realistic systematic uncertainties.

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@article{arxiv.2602.19866,
  title  = {Probing Doubly Charged Higgs Bosons with Three-Body Associated Production at Future $e^+e^-$ Colliders},
  author = {Brahim Ait-Ouazghour and Abdesslam Arhrib and Rachid Benbrik and Mohammed Boukidi and Mohamed Chabab and Khalid Goure and Stefano Moretti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.19866},
  year   = {2026}
}

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16 pages, 9 figures, 13 tables